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...Tempest, with Arnie as an eccentric but passionate Prospero. She portrays him in clear Southern light that shines with a "persistent, steady, invisible fallout of blessing." She invests him with a slightly seedy spirituality by surrounding him with motley religious remnants: an 18-ft.-high statue of the Buddha (flotsam from the hurricane) that he has stashed in his yard; a nuns' shrine to St. Francis that he tends on his island; an occult Mexican medal that dangles from his neck. Spencer's handling of these images leaves the reader conscious at every moment of a high skill...
DIED. Richard Stankiewicz, 60, sculptor and an innovator of assemblage who reclaimed flotsam and jetsam from what he called "the sea of junk around us" and welded it into irreverent, often witty, anthropomorphic or zoomorphic constructions that nonetheless were possessed of a cohesive, entirely unrandom vision; of cancer; in Worthington, Mass...
...spinning record is actually the perfect curve of a racetrack, filmed from far above, the spinning effect achieved by race cars circling in parallel formation. This cinematographic sleight-of-hand is just the first drop in a cascade of sensory jokes and puns that keep this sophisticated bit of flotsam bubbling along. The viewer can't help but go happily with the flow...
...debates tend to sound like audi tions for a road company of 7776. Arguments are nearly always flotsam-packed and comically eclectic, skittering from Burger King to Rousseau, from Bruce Springsteen to the Sudetenland. Says Gilbert: "You can't really prepare, so everything becomes important: something your mother once said, a tidbit from sociology class...
Pressing the case with unusual vigor, he puts out a reward and eventually gets some arrests. The two suspects are inner-city Blacks, one a tough hoooker, the other Lucas Ebry, her part time procurer, a piece of human flotsam Corde's zeal for prosecution draws fire from many quarters. The liberals in the suburbs think he may be a racist, the college administration thinks he may be a bit unbalanced. The college radicals, led by Corde's nephew. Mason are sure he is both...